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THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF 

ABRAHAM LINCOLN 



THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF 
ABRAHAM LINCOLN 



BY FREDERICK HILL MESERVE 



An Advertisement of A Book 
which will contain Photographic 
Prints of all known Photographs 
of Abraham Lincoln, printed from 
the Original Negatives, and from 
Copies of the Daguerreotypes, 
Ambrotypes, and Photographs, 
with the History of each Portrait. 



NEW YORK 
OCTOBER, 1910 



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THE BOOK 

THERE is now in preparation 
a sumptuous book of the 
Photographs of Abraham 
Lincoln from the collection of 
Frederick Hill Meserve of New 
York, which is believed to contain 
all of the known photographs of the 
great War President. 

This work, to be on a scale not 
attempted hitherto, is designed to be 
the authority on the subjed. It will 
be the permanent record of the real 
Lincoln. From these photographs 
all the engravings, etchings, litho- 
graphs and paintings have been 
made, with the exception of the 
very few paintings made from life. 

The paper will be of the higher 
grade, hand made, with size of 
page about 9x11 inches. The 
text will be printed from clear, 
large type, with wide margins. 

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The frontispiece will be an excep- 
tionally fine photograph accompanied 
with a letter in facsimile from Mr. 
Robert T. Lincoln in which he 
states his preference for it as the 
beft likeness of his father. 

THE TEXT 

In addition to a descriptive mono- 
graph there will be a numbered lift 
corresponding to the chronological 
arrangement of the photographs. 
This lift will consift of data gathered 
from many sources concerning the 
time, place and conditions of the 
making of the portraits, credit being 
given, as far as may be, to the 
sources from which the information 
and portraits were obtained. 

THE PHOTOGRAPHS 

The photographic prints will be 
made in black and white, on high 
grade portrait paper of carte-de- 

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visite size, the size in vogue during 
the Civil War. Some are from the 
original negatives themselves. Where 
copies of other photographs have 
been made great care has been 
taken to use the originals without 
re-touching. A few of the portraits 
show sclratches and defeds of the 
films and varnish, but even when 
made from faded and poor, but 
often rare originals, they are not 
less interefting and valuable. Of 
some photographs that were widely 
circulated during Lincoln's life only 
a few copies are known to-day. 

The colledion will be confined 
to life photographs. Copies of paint- 
ings and engravings, which are often 
erroneously included under this head, 
will not be used. 

In addition to nearly 100 of the 
portraits of Lincoln there will be 
contemporary life photographs of 

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Mrs. Lincoln and the three sons, 
the Vice-Presidents, and members 
of the Cabinets, comprising in all 
about 1 20 portraits. 

THE EDITION 

Only 100 numbered and signed 
copies of the book will be made, 
and of these about 90 will be for 
sale. The book will be privately 
printed and without copyright. 

THE PRICE 

The price will be $35 for each 
copy, payable upon delivery, car- 
riage paid. 

If the hiSorical value of the text 
and lis, the coS of paper, printing, 
binding, and of the labor of prepar- 
ation, should be entirely eliminated, 
this price for the photographs of 
Lincoln alone, some of which are 
very rare and not to be found else- 
where, would not be excessive. 

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The book will be attradively 
bound in boards. If desired it will 
be delivered in sheets for private 
binding. 

SUBSCRIPTION 

Subscriptions will be filled in the 
order received and copies numbered 
to correspond. As about 1 2,000 
photographic prints muft be made 
for the edition and each copy pre- 
pared separately, the books can 
only be delivered as made, several 
months being required to complete 
them all. It is believed that the 
small number will be quickly taken 
by colledors of Lincolniana, libra- 
ries, hi^orical societies, and lovers 
of rare books. 



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